DELISH MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020
A new cafe on Grand Island offers breakfast and lunch
Eggsquisite Eats
NEW RESTAURANT
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BY MICHELE DELUCA
EDITOR OF DELISH
new breakfast and lunch restaurant opened in
October on Grand Island offering traditional
diner favorites and some specialty items including
a flight of Belgian waffles, each boasting a different
topping of the diner’s choice like fruits, powdered
sugar or Nutella.
Tim and Danielle Lango of Orchard Park
opened Eggsquisite Eats at the southern end of
Grand Island Boulevard, in a building that was
once a Chinese restaurant, and later a hot dog
cafe.
The restaurant is a dream come true for Tim,
who has been harboring a desire to open his own
place since he worked for some family restaurants
nearly 20 years ago.
While spending the next couple of decades in
the insurance industry, he perfected his recipes
and his ideas, and finally found the right location
on Grand Island, in the same plaza as Aura Salon
and Spa, where his daughter, Gabrielle, works as a
manager.
“I decided to take a leap of faith and it’s been
great,” he said.
His wife Danielle did the decorating, adding
some photos and wood touches, warming up the
walls with a rich blue hue and adding new lighting.
She helps out on the weekends while working full
time as a principal at Charlotte Avenue Elementa-
ry School in Hamburg.
Gabrielle helps out on Sundays when the Aura
Salon is closed, while daughter Samantha, 13, a
middle schooler, and son Zachary, 27, a tattoo art-
ist at The Tilted Rose in Williamsville, mostly en-
joy coming into the restaurant to eat, Tim joked.
He said that while some people comment on
the distance from Orchard Park to Grand Island,
it’s really just 30 minutes door to door and he said
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he drove much more when he was working as a
district manager for Combined Insurance.
The couple was drawn to the island because
not only did Danielle lived on Grand Island for a
time, but they have friends who live there.
The Langos are very happy with how business
is going. They have no plans to franchise or expand
Eggsquisite Eats. “I’m looking to maintain and
keep putting out high quality foot at a reasonable
price and a nice atmosphere,” Tim explained.
They recently implemented new specials, in-
cluding early bird specials from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m.
where customers can get a drink and a choice of
five breakfasts for $5.
When asked what customers seem to be espe-
cially enjoying on the menu, Tim said, “We sell a
lot of omelettes, people love the omelettes,” and
added that he’d had a few Southerners come into
the restaurant and rave about the sausage gravy.
“They also love the Eggs Benedict options,” he
added. “And both our strawberry avocado and av-
ocado toast are huge hits. We sell a ton of those.”
Other specialty items include the mini-Belgian
waffles flight for $9.45, the Irish Benny with
corned beef and rye toast, for $10.50 and the
Nutella pancakes with strawberries or bananas
for $9.45. Lunch offers a variety of sandwiches,
burgers, paninis, soup, chili and salads, including
a chicken souvlaki salad and a Pittsburgh salad
which is served with criss-cross cut fries and
chicken or steak atop mixed greens. Both break-
fast and lunch items are available any time.
The restaurant, located at 1752 Grand Island
Blvd., off the 190 expressway, is open every day
from 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. except Sundays when
they are open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m..
For more information, call 775-5034, visit on Facebook or at
Eggsquisiteeats.com.